Reviews

Crooked Tree

Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway

Want to know what 21st-century bluegrass sounds like? Crooked Tree, Molly Tuttle’s first purely bluegrass recording, is the answer. Recorded...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2022

Stand & Deliver

Pilgrims’ Way

Pilgrims’ Way have had something of a chequered history. In 2011, the trio of singer Lucy Wright, fiddle player Tom...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2018

Daybreak

Sierra Hull

Between Sarah Jarosz and Sierra Hull, there seems to be a surfeit of teenaged mandolin-strumming-singer-songwriter prodigies on the acoustic/bluegrass scene...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Fabian Holland

Fabian Holland

The real challenge of folk music in a post-industrial society is how to make it relevant. Fabian Holland is a...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Jan/Feb/2014

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ÌFÉ

ÌFÉ is the brainchild of Otura Mun, a producer and percussionist deeply invested in creative practice from Cuba and Puerto...

Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: January/February/2022

Star Rise: Remixed

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook

This is the latest classic in the Real World Gold series. As such, it is a little peculiar, being a...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Nov/Dec/2013

Hearth

Stewart Garry

Newcastle-born Stewart Garry may be a relatively new name to some, but with his latest release, Hearth, he makes his...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: January/February/2023

Gasandji

Gasandji

Na Lingui Yo' (‘I love you’ in the Congolese language Lingala) is undoubtedly the big hit of this debut album...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Aug/Sept/2013

Reclaim

Mishra

Home-recorded entirely live-in-the-room, in a farmhouse in Gloucestershire, Mishra’s new album sets out its stall via an eclectic musical fusion...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2021

Toumani & Sidiki

Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté

The kora is an age-old instrument, rich in history, yet its promotion as a solo instrument is relatively recent. This...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2014